LAWYER FACING DRUG CHARGES

LAUDERHILL -- Lawyer Howard L. Finkelstein has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence and possession of cocaine and other drugs, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said on Tuesday.

Finkelstein, 33, was arrested on Thursday after his 1984 Cadillac Biarritz veered off the roadway and struck a parked Sheriff's Office car in the 2000 block of Northwest 56th Avenue, according to a Sheriff's Office report.

Finkelstein, a former assistant public defender in Broward, was booked into the County Jail on charges of possession of cocaine, possession of Dilaudid, possession of Percodan, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence, said Al Gordon, sheriff's spokesman.

He was released from jail on a $3,600 bond, the Sheriff's Office said.